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Springer Renaissance Scepticisms 2009 Edition by Gianni Paganini José R. M. Neto
Even if specific pieces of research (on the sources or on individual authors such as Pico Agrippa Erasmus Montaigne Sanches etc.) have given and are still producing significant results on Renaissance scepticism an overall synthesis comprising the entire period has not been achieved yet. No predetermined idea of that complex historical subject that is Renaissance scepticism underlies this book and we want to sacrifice the complexity of movements personalities tendencies and interpretations to any sort of a priori unity of theme even less. We acknowledge unhesitatingly that we had always thought of "scepticisms" in the plural and believe that the different contexts (philosophical religious cultural) in which these forms grew up must also be taken into account. Furthermore given the transversal nature and provocative character of the sceptical challenge this book contains essays also on philosophers who without being sceptics and sometimes engaged in fighting scepticism nevertheless took up its challenge.The main authors considered in this book are: Vives Castellio Agrippa Pedro de Valencia Pico Sanchez Montaigne Charron Bruno Bacon and Campanella. The various essays in the book show the relevance of the philosophical thought of authors little known by the general public and put in new perspective important aspects of the thought of some of the great thinkers of the Renaissance. Table of contents : Introduction. Before reading Sextus. Renaissant Pyrrhonism: A Relative Phenomenon; E. Naya. Self-knowledge Scepticism and the Quest for a New Method : Juan Luis Vives on cognition and the impossibility of perfect knowledge; L. Casini. Scepticism Reformation and Counter-Reformation. The Issue of Reformation Scepticism Revisited. What Sebastian Castellio Did or Did Not Know I. Backus. Tutius ignorare quam scire: Cornelius Agrippa and Scepticism; V.P. Compagni. Pedro de Valencia and Academic Scepticism in Late Sixteenth-Century Spain; J.C. Laursen. Four Renaissance Sceptics. Gianfrancesco Pico and Scepticism; G. Cao. Humanus animus nusquam consistit: doctor Sanchez's diagnosis of incurable human unrest and ignorance; A. Lupoli. A Scepticism that Conquers the Mind. Montaigne and Plutarch; N. Panichi. Charron's Academic Sceptical Wisdom; N. Panichi. Three Reactions to Scepticism. Giordano Bruno on Scepticism; Tristan Dagron. The Sceptical Evaluation of Techne and Baconian Science; B.J. de Oliveira J.R.M. Neto. T. Campanella: Reappraisal and Refutation of Scepticism; G. Paganini.